First up is Fox: One day after Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., passed the Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act in the House, he plans to introduce a resolution to further address transgender athletes in women's sports. .
Staub will join Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., in introducing a joint resolution calling on the NCAA to disqualify all transgender athletes who compete as women. The committee will also call on the NCAA to enact a new policy that would prohibit any future transgender men from competing as women and push for all of its member conferences to do the same, according to draft legislation obtained by Fox News Digital.
Unlike the Protecting Women and Girls in Athletics Act, this resolution would directly address transgender inclusion at the college level and would also impact non-federally funded schools.
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Riley Gaines speaks during a press conference following the vote on the Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act at the U.S. Capitol on January 14, 2025. (Anna Chanmemaker/Getty Images)
Staub's earlier bill only provided that federally funded educational programs or activities that operate, sponsor or promote athletic programs or activities that allow men to participate in programs or activities designed for women or girls violate Title IX.
But the resolution could extend to private institutions that compete in the NCAA. Trans inclusion at the women's college level has been a mainstream political issue during the Biden administration, involving transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in 2022 and transgender volleyball player Blaire Fleming in 2024 Fleming's controversy highlights this issue.
The NCAA supports and protects transgender athletes in women’s sports through its current policies.
NCAA President Charlie Baker faced questions and criticism from Republican lawmakers about the policies at a Dec. 17 congressional hearing. He repeatedly cited federal law and recent federal court rulings supporting the policy.
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On President Biden’s first day in office, he issued an executive order to allow and protect transgender people in women’s sports. During the December hearing, Baker pointed to "five lawsuits in the past 18 months" that have allowed transgender athletes to compete against biological females. However, there have been no rulings explicitly directing the NCAA to allow transgender athletes to compete with women or share women's locker rooms.
If Staub's bill becomes law, Baker and the NCAA will be responsible for enforcing the new rules, just as he claimed they would enforce previous rules under Biden.
One of the groups lobbying heavily for the resolution was Concerned Women in America (CWA), which has made the issue of transgender athletes competing against women at the NCAA level a core mission throughout Biden's term.
Macy Petty, a former NCAA female athlete and current CWA legislative strategist, told Fox News Digital that she attempted to submit a letter to NCAA Board of Governors President Dr. Linda Livingstone on the issue. But it was dismissed and Livingstone "didn't even look me in the eye". "
"The NCAA continues to fail in its responsibility to protect female athletes and is a top leader in enabling this discrimination. They have proven to have a complete disregard for the safety and dignity of the athletes they govern," Petty said.
The NCAA may soon have to abide by a new set of rules once the Trump administration takes office.
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Rep. Greg Steube gives a television interview outside the U.S. Capitol on April 23, 2020. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
President-elect Trump himself has vowed to ban transgender athletes from women's sports during his 2024 presidential campaign, making it one of the key issues in his and other Republicans' victory in November.
The issue became so prominent that the Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act became a top priority of the 119th Congress and passed the House with unanimous support from Republicans and even two Democrats.
With Republicans also holding a majority in the Senate, both of Staub's proposals are likely to be approved in Trump's first year in office.
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